good thing I didn't need that prescription right away

[cellio]

We have a new health plan at work, including a new prescription plan. You can order maintenance drugs by mail (I'll be testing the truth of that statement this week), or if you need to have a prescription filled right away (or it's not for an ongoing condition) you can use a participating pharmacy. How do you know where the participating pharmacies are? The enrollment packet says quite clearly that you can get that from their web site.

Well, that's an interesting theory. I cannot find any sort of directory on their web site. It's possible I could access more information if I logged in, but I was never given any account information with which to do so. (At least I wasn't in enrollment packet #2. Packet #1 never reached me.) The web site helpfully provides a phone number -- which answers Monday through Friday, 8AM to 8PM.

Good thing I didn't need a prescription in a hurry after hours, or on a weekend!

(I want more allergy drugs before going to Pennsic. This would have been easy before the change in plans. I hope it will one day be easy again, and I really hope that "one day" occurs this week.)

I'm thinking that having my current pharmacy transfer the prescription might add one complication too many to this venture and I should ask my doctor for a new one. I hope he'll do that for me over the phone.

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[cellio]

Ours will give a 3-month supply for 2 months' worth of co-pay. So that's still a win for the drugs I have to take for the rest of my life. For the month of allergy meds I use each year, I'll go locally. (I don't know how many years Allegra is good for.)